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Disappearance, they learned that gavin had troubles he kept hidden. the man who seemed to have it all struggled with addiction. he also had serious financial problems detectives were far from answers, but that would change when someone gave them a name that led to a crucial discovery. heres keith morrison with more. >> reporter: like it or not its a fact, an element of human nature. some people have affairs. some of them just flings and others a lot more. as detective ty poked through gavins lif...

Expect the worst, you think that you cant be shocked, but you can be is all i can say about that. >> reporter: but if gavin was dead, and certainly it looked that way, where was his body? how did his car wind up in the storage locker? and above all, who would have wanted him dead? reina lim certainly seemed an unlikely suspect. she told them she had rented the storage unit for someone else. meanwhile, detectives looked further into chandys affair with gavin and discovered the two had met in reha...

Phone? >> yes. >> reporter: but chandy said she didnt see him may 1st, hadnt heard from him since. last sighting? a colleague saw him driving his black mercedes. >> we felt that the vehicle was still out there somewhere. >> reporter: so find the car and maybe find out what happened to gavin. and nine months after gavin vanished, they finally got the break they were looking for. >> i said, "im here to talk to you about your daughter." and he started crying. and he said, she saw everything. comi...

Bobby grace. >> you dont normally find a body two years later after somebody is killed. you dont normally have key witnesses who dont come forward until years later. >> reporter: in january 2015, nearly three years after gavin smith disappeared, creech was charged with first degree murder. he pleaded not guilty. and chandy, well -- >> we didnt know if she set it up or if she had something to do with it. coming up -- an undercover sting and chandys the target. >> and i was like, stop it. i was ...

>> reporter: but as much as he loved his boys, detectives learned gavin had been unfaithful to his wife, had been seeing a woman named melanie, and now that gavin had disappeared without a trace -- >> we went to talk to her and to see if she had any information. >> did she? >> no. the relationship had ended, and she had not talked to him, and she had no idea where he was at. >> reporter: but though melanie was the reason gavin moved out of his house a month before he vanished, she was not his fi...

Jorge saw something in the passenger seat. >> it looked like a body. it was just stiff, like a stick, you know, a long stick. >> and you said it was wrapped up? >> wrapped up in a blanket. >> reporter: eventually jorge got rid of gavins cell phone, but that very night, said the prosecutor, creech called a friend from the powerhouse gym, stan mcquay. >> he asked if he can come over and if he can park his car in my garage. >> was the body still in it at that point? >> yes. >> reporter: mcquay allo...

Welcome back. nearly three years after gavin smiths disappearance, john creech was charged with his murder. police believe john carried out the rage-fueled killing as revenge for gavins affair with johns wife chandy. several of johns associates admitted they helped john hide evidence. but investigators did not think they had the whole story just yet. and there was one person who could give it to them directly. so they figured out a way to get it. once again, heres keith morrison. >> reporter: de...

In stans garage. >> and did that upset you? >> very much so. >> reporter: so weeks later, two men arrived with a trailer. >> and did you watch them take the mercedes out of your garage? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: that, said prosecutor grace, is when they moved the mercedes into reinas storage locker. where, months later, detective labbe noticed one crucial little detail that survived the attempted cover-up. >> i was looking at the license plate, and i see that its not there. there should be a c...

To track her phone and followed her only because he was worried he said. and then he saw her car parked near gavins and thought it best to talk to them, but he didnt sneak up on them, he said. >> so i knock on the hood of the car. >> was chandy sitting on the lap of this guy? >> she was sitting on his lap. they just kept talking, so i la walked over to the passenger t side door, and i knocked on the window.er >> what did they do? >> chandy opened the door.dir. >> and what did she say to you? >> ...

Gavin ever. >> reporter: still, attraction is a powerful thing, isnt it? early in 2012, john and chandy were separated but still living together. and gavin and lisa were separated, too. and that old magnetic force, gavin met chandy on that secluded road. >> did the two of you become romantic? >> yes. >> did that include kissing? >> yes. >> and while you were kissing gavin, did something happen that caught your attention? >> yeah. >> what happened? >> just something like popped up, like appeared....